Text: | Loveliest of Trees |
Author: | A. E. Housman, 1859-1936 |
Tune: | ORIENTIS PARTIBUS |
Harmonizer: | Carlton R. Young, 1926- |
1 Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
is hung with bloom along the bough,
and stands about the woodland ride
wearing white for Eastertide.
2 Now of my threescore years and ten,
twenty will not come again,
and take from sev'nty springs a score,
leaving me just fifty more.
3 And since to look at things in bloom
fifty springs are little room,
about the woodlands I will go,
seeing the cherry hung with snow.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Loveliest of trees, the cherry now is hung |
Title: | Loveliest of Trees |
Author: | A. E. Housman, 1859-1936 |
Meter: | 8.7.8.7. |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1993 |
Topic: | Transcending Mystery and Wonder: Transience; Change; Easter(1 more...) |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | ORIENTIS PARTIBUS |
Harmonizer: | Carlton R. Young, 1926- |
Meter: | 8.7.8.7. |
Key: | F Major or modal |
Source: | Medieval French melody |
Copyright: | Harm. © 1989 United Methodist Publishing House |